May 23, 2014

Lost: Motivation

Truth: My motivation to eat healthy has gone out the window
this week.

I’m doing great with my workouts, getting up early and
getting them in before work. But then
someone offers me a cookie at work. Or I
go out to celebrate a friend’s graduation.
Or we have a happy hour to celebrate a co-worker’s upcoming wedding.

I’ve said this so many times before, but I know that I can’t
out train a bad diet, and I’m already feeling sluggish and gross after just a
week’s worth of eating poorly. I know life
happens, and there will be times I’m not 100% on point, but I really need to
focus in again so I don’t start going in reverse!

I usually have a saying that I live by: free food is fat
food! So if someone brings in food to work, I keep away from it…I don’t usually
have any of the daily treats like cookies, cake, or bagels that end up in my
office so often, and I need to remind myself of that rule, since it really does
make a difference for me! I also find that if I limit my indulgences to the weekends,
and that I don’t keep them in the house (IE, I have to go out to get ice cream
as opposed to having a half gallon waiting in the freezer), that I am way more
successful.

So now we have a 3 day weekend coming up, and I’m hoping
that I can be a little more active, a little more diligent about my food
choices, and hopefully I can un-do some of this bloat that I’ve put on this
week!

I know that motivation is in there somewhere, I just have to
dig deep to find it!